Poland

The rest of the family is also not as adventuresome as I would like and they wanted to take advantage of the prevalence of our fast food which has invaded the former Easter Bloc…. I did not have a winter to spend with them but I do have a little more to grab around the midsection as a result of their perogies and kielbasas.I have always liked perogies. We don’t get much of a chance to eat them at home, and I think health conscious chefs and individuals have tried to use olive oil or other less “bad” fats when serving them to Americans…. Back to the restaurant they came and after bribing them with another ice cream on the way home they sat and were good company while I ate serving 3 and serving 4.

Our mere three days there were not enough to make a real analysis of the city but we did manage to get some feel of what Krakow was like…. Looking at buildings that were once the homes of hundreds when the ghettos were established, or the famous tower where the lone trumpeter warned his countrymen of the coming Tartars, you couldn’t help but feel like you were walking amongst living history…. When I opened the door to leave the room there was always a secret service at the end of the hall.When we finally left the Sheraton to go and see what Krakow had to offer we were amazed…. While some of the old Soviet bloc countries had retained an almost entirely foreign atmosphere, Poland had jumped right into a western European mind set. We continued our adventure around Krakow by going into the old Jewish ghettos established by the Nazis during their occupation of Poland.

Over the past nine months we have seen some of the world’s greatest natural wonders and experienced many of humankind’s greatest accomplishments. Sites like the Great Wall of China, Angkor Wat, the Taj Mahal, and the Hagia Sophia have filled us with wonder and reminded us that man possesses awesome power to shape his environment.…

Once a year we set aside a day to honor or at least cook for our wives and mothers. On the road we have a way of losing track of our holidays. We remembered our birthdays because we discussed which country we where we were going to be in for each one before we left.…

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Sixintheworld is a family of six, ranging in age from 38 to 4, who embarked on an 11-month round the world adventure in August 2006. Our next 7-month adventure in 2015 is going to be chronicled at 200daysaway.com .